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The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county. The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances.
The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories about how much Brunswick County Commissioners earn through salaries, per diem and mileage reimbursements, FICA contributions, health insurance contributions, life insurance contributions, credit card transactions and discretionary funding at commissioners’ disposal.

The current fiscal year will be the last year for county commissioners’ discretionary spending allowances, which have come to be known as their “slush funds.”

A storm system that dumped 10 inches of rain on Brunswick County and closed down many of the county’s roadways has left Brunswick County in a state of emergency.

A state of emergency was declared late Monday afternoon, as most of the county’s roadways were under water.

Brunswick County Emergency Services Director Anthony Marzano said the emergency declaration remained in effect for an impending storm system expected to hit the county Wednesday, Sept. 29, as well as a possible tropical event Thursday, Sept. 30.

Brunswick County Academy (BCA) teachers and students are linking studies in all subjects to the first nine weeks school-wide theme, “My Coastal Home.”

Middle-school students have been studying ecosystems, tributaries and landforms. These students traveled to Masonboro Island to explore the ecosystem, salt marshes, tributaries, inlets, and regional animal and plant life.

SHALLOTTE—It was a conversation overheard by a West Brunswick High School student that prompted a lockdown and evacuation of the school’s campus last Wednesday.

Superintendent Ed Pruden said at about 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, a student overheard the word “bomb” during a nearby conversation among classmates and immediately reported the incident to the principals.

“They did just a brief lockdown and then went into evacuation after getting everybody in place,” Pruden said.

More than 150 students and staff members gathered around the flagpole at West Brunswick High School last Wednesday for prayer.

See You at the Pole is celebrated across the county the fourth Wednesday morning each September. Jen Negron, theater arts teacher, said the group gathered at 7:30 a.m. and had devotion and prayed from 7:45 a.m. until classes began.

Al Miliken, a lay speaker from Village Point United Methodist Church, led the group in devotion. Principal Jamal Woods led the group in prayer.